subtext

Preposition: of

• story: Our Last Day's Holiday It's about now that I'll let the titles express the subtext of this story.
• book: If the subtext of this book is to make men anxious about their masculinity, then Thomas misses his own point.
• aspiration: This world of beautiful women, handsome men and rags-to-riches stories belies a subtext of social aspiration and entrenched racial hierarchies.
• poster: You know the one's I mean, where the subtext of the poster is ' beware, we're watching you!
• play: He wants to restore the political messages and subtext of the plays.

Converse of object

• add: On the other hand, Morton acts her socks off to add subtext, raw emotion and a true sense of desperation.
• have: The image also has an imperial subtext - the idea of India offering her riches to Europe.
• understand: Has the Merchant understood the subtext of his story, or is it simply a fabliau about a bad wife to him?
• provide: Indeed, the cornerstone of State sovereignty provides an abiding subtext to assertions of rights of transit.
• read: Reading supposed subtexts can be nothing other than subjective unless she has a papyrus with the code on it.
• explore: Julien explores the ambiguous sexual subtexts of a period of rich artistic expression, and the enduring cultural significance of these pioneers ' work.

Preposition: for

• film: The extras are both attractive and extensive, establishing a historical and cultural subtext for the feature film.

Adjective modifier

• political: Yet in each story there is also a suppressed political subtext.
• emotional: In such cases, the emotional subtext enters into the meaning of the text.
• religious: In this more secular tragic kingdom, the religious subtext will go undetected by many.
• strong: The characters don't say much, and when they do there's a strong subtext that lets us see inside them.